First and foremost, this is a rhythm game that succeeds in being a game for rhythm gamers. You need to coordinate several different mechanics at once, the placement of the notes corresponds sensibly to the music, there's a high difficulty ceiling, and you can create your own charts. You'd be surprised how many rhythm games come out that miss this checklist. At the end of the day, rhythm game junkies like myself are looking for a game that they have to grind to get better at, and a game that makes you feel rewarded for nailing a new section correctly, of course while jamming out.

I'm not going to talk about quality of the songs because that's crazy subjective, but there's a wide range of electronic music so there's probably something you'll like.

There are three things that irk me, personally. First is that the jump between Expert and XD doesn't really have a natural bridge; XD introduces new patterns or mechanics that don't exist at slower speeds in Expert. Luckily, there's a practice mode where you can change the playback speed, so this doesn't end up being a huge problem. Second is that note placement makes a lot less musical sense when you're not playing on the XD difficulty, and can sometimes feel like there's no reason for a certain mechanic to be placed at a certain time; whereas in XD, spacebar pretty consistently plays around the bass drum or beat, spins feel like they're at impactful moments of the song, etc... The third thing I have an issue with is that some of the choices of note/beat/spin colors end up messing with my head, and I imagine would be a pretty big pain for those who are colorblind. Rest easy though, they're in the process right now of implementing accessibility options, including a full suite of color-customization for every type of note that shows up. That's the main reason I decided to write a review as well: Since I've had this game, there's been consistent updates and good transparency from the devs. When something takes longer than expected, they let us know and give us the aspects of the delayed update that they *are* ready to push, so big respect there.

I have a lot of fun with it already, and the devs have shown that they're actively working to make it even better.

First and foremost, this is a rhythm game that succeeds in being a game for rhythm gamers. You need to coordinate several different mechanics at once, the placement of the notes corresponds sensibly to the music, there's a high difficulty ceiling, and you can create your own charts. You'd be surprised how many rhythm games come out that miss this checklist. At the end of the day, rhythm game junkies like myself are looking for a game that they have to grind to get better at, and a game that makes you feel rewarded for nailing a new section correctly, of course while jamming out. I'm not going to talk about quality of the songs because that's crazy subjective, but there's a wide range of electronic music so there's probably something you'll like. There are three things that irk me, personally. First is that the jump between Expert and XD doesn't really have a natural bridge; XD introduces new patterns or mechanics that don't exist at slower speeds in Expert. Luckily, there's a practice mode where you can change the playback speed, so this doesn't end up being a huge problem. Second is that note placement makes a lot less musical sense when you're not playing on the XD difficulty, and can sometimes feel like there's no reason for a certain mechanic to be placed at a certain time; whereas in XD, spacebar pretty consistently plays around the bass drum or beat, spins feel like they're at impactful moments of the song, etc... The third thing I have an issue with is that some of the choices of note/beat/spin colors end up messing with my head, and I imagine would be a pretty big pain for those who are colorblind. Rest easy though, they're in the process right now of implementing accessibility options, including a full suite of color-customization for every type of note that shows up. That's the main reason I decided to write a review as well: Since I've had this game, there's been consistent updates and good transparency from the devs. When something takes longer than expected, they let us know and give us the aspects of the delayed update that they *are* ready to push, so big respect there. I have a lot of fun with it already, and the devs have shown that they're actively working to make it even better.